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Show I ; - - ; S I LONDON, Nov. 30, via Montreal. The coalition gov- ' ft ernment, if it is returned to power, will insist upon the pe- : sonal accountability of former Emperor William for the 5 . crimes for which he personally was responsible, said Sir Fred- I erick E. Smith, British attorney-general, in an election day j speech yesterday. i Sir Frederick said it was also the intention of the coalition J government to punish Germany which had broken every W law, human and divine. With regard to the Germans interned in England, the attorney-general announced it was the government's inten- " f tion to send them back to Germany. 1 f AMSTERDAM, Nov. 30. William Hohenzolleni lias definitely, I i renounced all future rights to the crowns of Prussia and Germany J according to the test of a document signed by the former emperor, I ; which is quoted in a telegram received here from Berlin. j LONDON, Nov. 30. Former Emperor William signed his abdi-1 i J cation at Amerohgen, Holland, yesterday, according to a dispatch 1 jj' to the Wolff bureau of Berlin, transmitted by the Exchange Tele- ( graph correspondent at Copenhagen. j; The abdication decree, according to the message, expressed the hope that "the new regent" would be able to protect the German J people against anarchy, starvation and foreign supremacy. The use of the word regent in the statement is commented upon ', I here as possibly significant. i.'Im !j WASHINGTON, Nov. 30. State department advices from The I Hague today reported that Admiral von Hintze, former head of the t t German navy, was in Holland to obtain from the former kaiser a formal proclamation of abdication. j AMSTERDAM, Nov. 30. In response to a threat by the British ; I armistice commissioners that hostilities would be resumed unless the ( ; conditions under which prisoners were arriving in the allied lines ; was remedied, a Berlin telegram declares that everything is being j ?' done by Germany to assure the orderly return of prisoners. j The German response adds that the transport of returning Brit-1 i ish prisoners is now assured and that much transport has already I been effected to a considerable extent. j j PARIS, Friday, Nov. 29. The first of the 150,000 railway cars : ! which Germany must deliver to the allies under the terms of the ! armistice, arrived yesterday at the frontier and were received by j military authorities, acocrding to the Matin. i t BERLIN, Friday, Nov. 29. A group of independent Socialist I Democrats closely identified with the Spartacus element of Dr. Lieb- t knecht has seized control of all wireless stations in Germany and I now is transmitting propaganda and other news, the Berlin Tage- I blatt says it is informed. I Chancellor Ebert and Herr Haase on behalf of the government, I the newspaper adds, warn the press at home and abroad of this con-' dition and declare further that the government will not assume re-1 I sponsibility for wireless information now being sent out of Ger- j many. j j PARIS, Wednesday, Nov. 27. Fifteen thousand allied soldiers : who have been prisoners of war in Germany are pouring through ;'. Metz and an equal-number is passing through Verdun, according to 1 Y. M. C. A, headquarters here. Americans and British are being received at Verdun by the Y. M. C. A. and are given any aid that) , may be necessary. m A large number of American officers will enter Switzerland on j Pridaj, according to the Y. M. C. A. These men are now being con- centrated at Villengen, Germany. i k BERLIN, Thursday, Nov. 28. The ,a!ms of the new German Democratic '( Party were outlined to the correspond. ent today by Theodore Wolff, editor in ,j ' chief of the Berlin Tageblatt. It was on Herr Wolff's initiative that the par-H par-H y was formed. He said: "Our party has been formed to cup- Port the republic, to further demo-l demo-l cratic reforms on a Soclallstiocconom- t ic basis and to furnish a rallying point Jor the middle classes, and kept them J from falling Into the power of the re- actionarieo. The party will naturally oppose Bolshevism with all means at ' command. In order words ve aim "to win and hold the middle class for democracy." rnHerr Wo,ff exP'ancd that all former 'I "jembers of the former Progressive or I i if" part,eB who have been active In I 'militaristic and nationalistic agitations k r Who have actively advocated the I submarine campaign, have beeri flatly ;j informed that, while they cannot be cx- 4 eluded from the party If they desire to join, thoy will nevertheless be rigorously rig-orously excluded from any partlcipa-tion partlcipa-tion In its leadership. j "The 'party's membership is already colossal," said Herr Wolff, "and thou-sands thou-sands of accessions arc coming in daily. Virtually all the progressive party membership except a few on the extreme right will Join and many prominent Democrats vho formerly stood so far to the left that they were kept out of party councils. These include in-clude mwi like Hugo Preuss, Germany's Ger-many's foremost authority on constitutional consti-tutional law, vho Is now drafting a constitution for submission to the national na-tional assembly, Professor Walther Schuecklng, of Marburg university, Professor Gerlach, D.eputy Fishbeck and Professor Max Weber. The left wing of the National-LTb-eralo is also furnishing recruits, according ac-cording to Herr Wolff. Herr Wolff declared de-clared that his party, next to the So-icalists, So-icalists, was by far the strongest Int the empire. It will favor tho Soclali-zation Soclali-zation of certain Industries such a6 mines and will demand that great estates es-tates be divided for settlement on returning re-turning soldiers. It holds, however, that private property shall not be .ouched without compensatoin. r |